Community voices concerns over American Chemical Society magazine

An organisational restructure at Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN)  has prompted members of the chemistry community to raise concerns about the publication’s future editorial independence.

C&EN  is a weekly current affairs magazine that has been published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for almost 100 years. But an apparent realignment of reporting priorities, alongside the dismissals last week of two of its most senior editors, has led several advisory and editorial board members to voice concerns about the publication’s future direction. The latest changes have followed an internal restructure in 2021 that saw the magazine moved from the ACS’s publishing division into its communications department.